B17, not bad indeed! I think that's more interesting than Air Force 1 but that's a personal opinion, and a B17 would probably also be easier to get close to in real life. Interesting knowledge about the engines, thanks 
How did they ever get that paintjob thrue? Looks nice though, but pardon the dumb question, what kind of bird is it?
Nice Shipyard picture there, although such a interplanetary cruiser would never be able to fly in/out of the atmosphere due to horrible aerodynamics (let alone lack of control, thrust, structural integrity etc.) so it would have to be built in orbit, like they normally are in the series/movies anyway, but a pretty good work on the edit.
Love the Bird of Prey but it's incredible it can fly with the wings so far back, not to mention the lack of conventional stabilisers. Btw, why didn't you just renmae the file from .jpeg to .jpg instead of changing the format? To my knowledge it's the same format so just renaming the file extension would cause no problems.
Btw, I just saw a F-16 flying overhead while driving outside of Roskilde today! RDAF, or at least I hope it was lol.I heard the whine thrue the open window and knew that was neither turboprop or any windnoise from the cars nearby and it was way too close (read: low) to be a airliner and it wasn't, it flew straight over us so I could see it thrue my window, cool!
Frank
Frank,
Thanks on the shipyard photo. I can't take credit for it personally, but I think they did a pretty good job. As for aerodynamics, the way the Starships work, they use gravity field manipulation, rather than aerodynamics, for flight, so they pretty much wouldn't need to worry since they would have shields up in the atmoshpere anyway. The Starship Voyager was actually designed to make planetfall, and was shown doing so in that series too. But you are correct in noting that the Constitution Class, and Regula Class (which is the class the USS Reliant belongs to), are constructed in space and not designed for landing on planetary surfaces. Interestingly enough, the original concept for the Starship Enterprise did have a design plan that would have had the ship able to land, at least with the saucer section (aka Primary Hull), but that idea was dropped for the practical purposes of both lack of special effects budget, and pacing in the series, which actually led Gene Roddenberry to come up with the idea of simply "beaming up/down" as needed for brevity. Now they are actually working on making such things a reality... though I'll not be the first to try it out!
In response to the .jpeg versus .jpg format, I have had some problems on occassion with the two formats being slightly different. In fact, I did manage to save one .jpeg as a .jpg with no change in quality (using the 100% quality setting), and logically, if the two formats were identical, should have resulted in identical file sizes, just with different file extensions, but the .jpg version was a bigger file even though it was just a "save as" from the .jpeg image.
As for how the Bird of Prey manages to fly, it's part lifting body, and part steerable exhaust, along with a mechanism that uses technology I'm not really at liberty to go into in any detail.... suffice to say it works ... and quite well!
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Oh, fyi, that chopper I believe is a CH-53. Here's a shot of one above a lake in Afghanistan on patrol with our brave USMC fella's over there!
